Quoting from Tech News (2017, week 03) [0]: "Sometimes edits in MediaWiki by mistake are shown coming from private IP addresses such as 127.0.0.1. Edits and other contributions logged to these IP addresses will be blocked and shown the reason from MediaWiki:Softblockrangesreason. This should not affect most users. Bots and other tools running on Wikimedia Labs, including Tool Labs will receive a "blocked" error if they try to edit without being logged in."
See <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154698> for more details and <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/324215/> for the config change that will enable the blocks. I would expect this to become active on 2017-01-19. [0]: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2017-January/001534.html Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation <[email protected]> [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Sr Software Engineer Boise, ID USA irc: bd808 v:415.839.6885 x6855 _______________________________________________ Labs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l
